Why do the virals return home? Why was infected Arlo staring at Dora and not eating her? Do the virals retain a trace of their humanity?Īccording to the Amy chapter, the infected are at least cognizant enough to pose that most human of questions: 'Who am I?' I get the sense, though, that they are less aspiring existential philosophers and more beings whose identity was taken from them when they were conscripted into the 'hive mind' Laura mentions. By Ross Miller Published Variety is reporting that Star Trek: Nemesis screenwriter John Logan has been brought on-board to write an adaptation of The Passage, a nearly 1200 page vampire novel written by Jordan Ainsley (the pseudonym of Justin Cronin). The novel seems to represent the soul as something perhaps more nebulous. Not loneliness, per se, but the sense that we live. With two notable exceptions, you could not simultaneously be a vampire and have a soul. The Passage, which is filled with beings who are haunted by memories, offers a fair bit of speculation on the solitary nature of existence.

What makes 'The Passage' different from 'Buffy' is that the TV show ultimately imagined a soul as something material that was transported wholesale out of a body once a person became a vampire. Another similarity between the two speculative fiction mythologies is the metaphysical method by which humans distinguish themselves from demons-'a viral is a being without a soul'(270). Ballantine Books bought the lot for over 3 million, and the. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. His new one, The Passage, is a 766-page doorstop, a dystopian epic that’s the first installment in a projected vampire trilogy.

As we learn more about Amy's ability to communicate with and control the virals, I'm reminded of another girl with a quasi-mystical calling to 'defeat the forces of darkness': Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong.

The passage vampire book